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An empty sewage treatment plant in Highland Park will be demolished, a project that park district officials hope will free up a view of Lake Michigan and Millard Park beach below the bluff. Officials said the work will begin after Labor Day, and returning the site to a stretch of sand and native plants is expected to take until mid-October, weather permitting. Park Project Director Mary Gardacki said the demolition is one of the recommended actions in the park district's 2007 lakefront master plan and is being done in concert with the Rosewood Beach renovation. "Surprisingly, (Millard Park) beach is used a lot," she said. "A lot of people walk down there and...

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